Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is focused on improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. They are seeking a Senior Data Analytics Engineer to develop and enhance analytics, support data ingestion processes, and consult on new project initiatives while leveraging both existing and open-source tools.
Responsibilities
- Provide realistic effort estimates and project timelines for development and support projects
- Interpret business requirements and functional specifications and create technical design and technical specifications documents
- Develop analytic processes following existing standard structures and macros. Develop for a production environment
- Conduct data extraction and research studies that may include analyzing, reviewing, trending, and presenting information, based on provided specifications, to support adhoc data request
- Work with business engagement leaders and technical analysts to develop new and modify existing process documentation and templates
- Conduct analyses of data elements within existing source data mart schemas
- Analyze healthcare claims from different data sources and identify data integrity issues
- Perform unit, system and regression testing for programs for quality assurance
- Performance tuning of existing applications and analytics
- Guide and advise developers to identify and improve the efficiency of current programming practices
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, ideas and information relating to technologies and be a key technical expert within the team
- Lead/Mentor new and existing team members
- Continually identify deficiencies in production processes, propose enhancements, and implement those enhancements to increase productivity or reduce manual effort
Skills
- 3+ years of experience with SAS
- 3+ years Relational Database experience - Oracle, Teradata, MySQL, and/or Snowflake
- 3+ years of analysis, process, problem solving and critical thinking experience
- 1+ years of Healthcare Data Experience
- UNIX
- Azure, Python, Spark, or Databricks Experience
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with VS Code and GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted development
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
Company Overview
We’re evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. It was founded in 1985, and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://frontiertherapies.optum.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Optum has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 73 in 2026, 648 in 2025, 559 in 2024, 620 in 2023, 851 in 2022, 593 in 2021, 438 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.